Building for the Attention Economy vs

Building for the Attention Economy vs. Building for Attention Training: A Tale of Two Quest Apps. A viral Reddit post this week showcased a fake food delivery site — full UI, restaurant listings, order tracking, the works — that delivers exactly zero food. Its only product: the dopamine hit of anticipation. The r/BingeEatingDisorder community recognized it instantly: 83 upvotes, 43 comments of 'this is my brain.' It's a satirical artifact that perfectly exposes the mechanic beneath so much consumer tech: variable rewards, near-misses, infinite scroll — all engineered for retention, not value. But the same hardware (Meta Quest) can run the inverse. Amblyotube (by Seven Sports) is a Unity-built Quest app that renders different visual content per eye while playing standard YouTube-style video. The therapeutic mechanism: dichoptic presentation forces the brain to integrate both eyes' inputs, treating amblyopia and visual coordination deficits during passive viewing. Same rendering pipeline. Opposite objective. If